Jagraon and the call of nature

In many towns of India one can see slogans written on walls like 'Dekho Gadha pishab kar raha hai' (look at the donkey urinating). Or it is in a rhymed form like' Gadhe ke poot yahan mat moot' (O son of a donkey, do not piss here). Due to reasons unknown such slogans are missing in Jagraon. But that does not mean such a problem does not exist here. A few years ago some one narrated an incidence where a lawyer of our town had this problem. A wall of his chamber became a victim of uninterrupted urination. His friend, also a lawyer, suggested him to get some religious slogans written over there. Heeding to his advice he got 'Jai'(victory) written before the name of some deity and got a few posters having pictures of deities pasted on the wall. To his relief the scheme worked.
In several towns there are paid washrooms. At such places urinating is free for men while there are charges for defecating . Jagraon is definitely lagging in this type of civic amenity. A man may manage somehow but it is indeed difficult for the fairer sex to suffer humiliation on this account.
Recently the Dhaba owners have realised the gravity of this inconvenience. The newly built Raja Dhaba has the washroom facility usually seen in five star hotels. Pehlwan da Dhabba also has reasonable quality of washrooms. For this reason these places are popular for  family outings. But both these restaurants are away from the main markets.
In the town there is a public urinal near the water tank at the Rani Jhansi chowk. I used it a few years ago. Apart from the stink and dirt there was a pile of empty cough syrup bottles. It seems that the place is a junction point of addicts who abuse medicines. Fortunately nowadays the Easyday Mall can be of some help near that area. But there one would have to buy something so as to use the toilet. Another urinal for men is in the old grain market. It is maintained, though only moderately. The new bus stop of Jagraon has eased this problem to some extent for distant travellers.
Unlike Arvind Kejriwal who has this problem in his agenda for Delhi, there is hardly anyone in Punjab who thinks on similar lines. Politician's of Punjab are in a habit of putting up their picture in every welfare activity undertaken by them. Certainly they do not want their smiling photographs on the walls of stinking urinals.